On so many levels, we have been forced to integrate the unprecedented in our worldview over the last few years. But instead of facing the uncomfortable reality, we deny the scope of the change and stick to established, gradual mechanisms of policy making (e.g. in Germany) or retreat to national frames – two strategies equally useless. Ultimately we lack the sense of urgency needed in this historic moment.
How do we, journalists, live up to the challenge of facing these changes and of perceiving and confronting them? How do we – in the eye of the hurricane – find our role and provide the informational basis that society needs to adapt or react?
How do journalists in a society as deeply polarised as Poland, for example, regain the ability to get through to the real problems – maybe by leaving aside the old battles and concentrating on the ones worth fighting?
How do we understand and define our own role and positions on some of the most divisive questions currently discussed in Europe?
Over 160 journalists, activists, and academics met in Warsaw to discuss the biggest challenges that journalism faces today and look at the problems in the four Visegrad countries.
Check out all the participating journalists listed here. This is what brings them together.
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Hamburg, Germany
Freelance Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Journalist
Franfurt Oder, Germany
Newsletter Editor
Berlin, Germany
Freelance Journalist
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Correspondent
Berlin and Warsaw, Germany
Author and Journalist
Köln, Germany
Health Reporter
Berlin, Germany
Photographer
Berlin, Germany
Freelance Journalist
Sosnowiec, Poland
Freelance Journalist
Kyiv, Ukraine
Journalist
Strasbourg, France
Civil Expert
Berlin, Germany
Staff Journalist
Wien, Austria
Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Press Officer
Berlin, Germany
Journalist / Medienberater
Herrnhut, Germany
Journalist
Köln, Germany
Journalist
Oslo, Norway
Freelance Journalist
Gliwice, Poland
Photographer and Journalist
Budapest, Germany
Author and Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Editor in Chief
Warsaw
Freelance Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Journalist
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Journalist
Berlin, Germany
euro|topics Correspondent Germany
Berlin, Germany
Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Journalist
Berlin, Germany
Project Manager
Berlin, Germany
Executive Director
München, Germany